lasingfox
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sooooooo,
I picked this behemoth up for free nearby and I thought i'd share its journey.
It originally came from the university of california and survived the trip in the back of a truck all the way to massachusetts!! some guy was moving out and thought it deserved a good home and I offered to pick it up. it was non lasing a year ago when he tested it but i thought it'd just be misaligned. I picked it up along with a lexel model 75 but that's another story.
I finally got back to my dorm and gave it a good scrub since it had maybe 50 years worth of dust in it.
So, after bringing it up to the fourth floor with some help, I powered it up...
yea.. filled with hydrogen.. soo, i ran it for a few hours in hopes of it cleaning up and then I started to notice a slight color change.
until suddenly..
after that cleanup, its up to 88mW!!!!! absolutely insane. and it can also do a ton of 612nm with external optics. i'm working on getting a new OC to tune to orange in normal operation.. did i mention it has a tuning prism?
I picked this behemoth up for free nearby and I thought i'd share its journey.
It originally came from the university of california and survived the trip in the back of a truck all the way to massachusetts!! some guy was moving out and thought it deserved a good home and I offered to pick it up. it was non lasing a year ago when he tested it but i thought it'd just be misaligned. I picked it up along with a lexel model 75 but that's another story.
I finally got back to my dorm and gave it a good scrub since it had maybe 50 years worth of dust in it.
So, after bringing it up to the fourth floor with some help, I powered it up...
yea.. filled with hydrogen.. soo, i ran it for a few hours in hopes of it cleaning up and then I started to notice a slight color change.
until suddenly..
after that cleanup, its up to 88mW!!!!! absolutely insane. and it can also do a ton of 612nm with external optics. i'm working on getting a new OC to tune to orange in normal operation.. did i mention it has a tuning prism?
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